A man was found guilty of raping and assaulting two women yesterday.
Duncan Begg, 43, went on trial accused of dozens of offences against women and children at the High Court in Aberdeen two weeks ago.
He was alleged to have raped three women and carried out lewd acts on three children during a 26-year period while living in the Wick area.
Begg, of Skye, denied the offences and claimed all sexual contact with the women was consensual.
But yesterday a jury took just under two hours to find him guilty of eight offences relating to two of the women.
One of his victims was subjected to a horrific indecent assault when she was pregnant in 1991. Evil Begg banged her head on bars, put his hand inside her body and threatened to remove her unborn child.
He attacked the woman on another occasion, when she was not pregnant, by repeatedly punching her on the face and burning her breast with a cigarette.
He also poured a bottle of whisky over her face and raped her.
Begg attacked another woman the previous year by seizing her by the hair and dragging her into a kitchen. Her clothes were removed and she was forced outside naked before he restrained her with her arms behind her back and raped her.
The jury of seven men and eight women found Begg guilty of the eight charges by a majority verdict.
Judge Morris described the trial as very “anxious and distressing” and thanked them for their service.
Begg went on trial two weeks ago facing 43 charges relating to lewd behaviour against children, rapes, indecent assaults and attacks on three women.
He was initially accused of threatening to cook a baby and tying a ligature around an infant’s body then dangling it out of a window.
Several charges were dropped during the trial.
Judge Morris deferred sentence for background reports until August 1 at the High Court in Glasgow.
Begg was remanded in custody and put on the sex offenders register.